Journalistic Drawing: Italy II

Italy round II: illustrations from the world of the watercolour block

First, my favourite Italy illustration, Saint Thomas Aquinas, who spoke in Viterbo during his lifetime--maybe just not in this "Godspell" of a fashion:

Villa Lante:

Viterbo:

Viterbo:

Viterbo:

Also be sure to check out Drawing Viterbo which should soon be updated with the work of the rest of Montserrat's Journalistic Drawing Class 2009

Journalistic Drawing: Italy

Back from Italy with a good amount of artwork some I am quite proud of and some not as much; that is always the way of it though.

First, a few favourites from my Moleskine:

Viterbo recommendation:

Villa Lante à la Edward Gorey:

Fountain in the courtyard of city hall:

Laundry Day:

Old and New:

And a bonus image from my pre-Italy notebook, embroidery:

Journalistic Drawing: Practice Session III

I leave for Italy this afternoon. Wish me luck! and look for updates come August.

Journalistic Drawing: Practice Session II

A few highlights from the pre-Viterbo notebook:

Oh Dear!

I have ignored this blog as of late--as well as my companions blogs. I shall have to do some scanning and posting directly, as well as catching up with everyone else's work.

In the mean time, a picture I just received of--almost all of--my senior illustration class* from our Senior Show Opening:

*in case there was any question, I am the one on the bottom left with the puffy walking suit

Journalistic Drawing: Practice Session

I have not updated in a while, so I give you the first three drawings for my pre-Italy Journalistic Drawing sketchbook

A Look Into Western Frontier Life

For Senior Illustration Seminar: "Mock Art Director" project. For Jamie, I was assigned to do vignettes for a young adult book of three women in frontier America. This is what I came up with:

Hope you like them.